Dr Wingnut

Month: January 2006

  • Success

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    If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.Bill Lyon

  • Statistics

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    Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won’t stand up, either.Evan EsarThere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

  • Search

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    Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.E. L. Konigsburg

  • Advertising

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    Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.Mark Twain

  • No cannibalism?

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    News this week about the Donner party to California, as reported by CNN, “Research: Donners didn’t resort to cannibalism” alleges that the Donners themselves did not resort to cannibalism during their fateful trip to the “Promised Land” of California, based on the fact that there were no burnt human bones found at the Alder Creek…

  • Firefights

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    People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.Abigail Van Buren

  • Help! I’ve lost my focus

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    This excellent article in Time about “Multitasking”, and the sidebar The Case for Doing One Thing at a Time, 16 January 2006, had some really good quotes from Suze Orman, the diva of personal finance:Personal-finance guru Suze Orman, despite an exhausting array of media and entrepreneurial commitments, utterly refuses to check messages, answer her phone…